Key Terms (Article 1)
Medicine Man
Aboriginal
Who's healing career was discussed in the article?
Bull Lodge
Where are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people indigenous to?
Western Australia
True or False: Psychology has only recently explored coloniality and postcolonialism.
True
What is the sacred practice involving rituals, spirituality, and relationships with non-human beings to restore health?
Indigenous Healing/Doctoring
___________ is used to pass down and spread knowledge, often delegitimized within Western medicine and practice.
Indigenous Storytelling
What healing tradition was primarily discussed in this article?
Aaniiih healing tradition of the Aaniiih -Gros Ventre Indians of Montana
True or False: Bush Babies is a project that aims to educate children in rural communities about environmental conservation.
False. It's a project that focuses on sharing the stories of Noongar elders of being born on country, and is also an educational, nature-based early learning program that connects children with Indigenous culture and the land.
True or False: CBPR (Community Based Participatory Research) places importance on collaboration and isn't one specific method of research.
True!
What is the idea that a person's health depends on relationships with people, land, spiritual well-beings?
Relationality
What is the preservation and transmission of one's culture/heritage across generations?
Cultural continuity
What does decolonizing mean in the context of this article?
To reclaim indigenous healing, culture and knowledge.
What was the "Native Settlement Scheme"?
A scheme which took away Aboriginal children from their families in settlements and forced them under European education with intentions to work domestically or with stocks.
What is the qualitative research method that explores human experiences based on observing the stories that people share?
Narrative inquiry
What is the spiritual force obtained through prayer, sacrifice, and relationships with spiritual beings?
Sacred Power
What is the tool for expression by incorporating visual creative practices like visual art, storytelling, or performance?
Community Arts
According to Gone, what is one of the three key distinctions between modern psychotherapy and indigenous healing?
Counseling is a secular endeavor; healing is a sacred affair
Counseling stems from human rationality/ingenuity; healing originates from mystical knowledge + facility with the numinous
Counseling relies on technical training; healing depends on a sacred relationship with Those Above
How does storytelling contribute to healing in Indigenous communities?
Storytelling allows Indigenous communities to reclaim their culture and empower their spirit, reconnecting the community.
What is psychosocial suffering in the context of article 2?
The recognition of generational psychological distress caused by the disruption of the community/culture.
What is the deep, inherited spiritual and emotional injury cause by colonization?
Soul Wound
What word is use to describe pain that is caused by dehumanizing Aboriginal people, who describe the feeling of being "burnt" or "locked in our brains"?
Psychic Harm
What has been the impact of attempting to use Western therapeutic approaches on Indigenous communities after taking away traditional healing methods?
Indigenous communities had lost a sense morale and purpose in the community.
Name one thing that decolonizing psychology does in the context of this article?
Challenges what Western culture considers valuable research.
Storytelling is imperative to Indigenous culture and healing.
True or False: Decolonizing counseling psychology primarily involves adapting Western therapeutic techniques to be more culturally sensitive, without fundamentally changing its underlying assumptions about knowledge, healing, and the individual.
False. Because decolonization requires deeper change, challenging Western frameworks and reclaiming Indigenous knowledge, relationships, and land-based healing, not just making therapy more “culturally sensitive.”